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Neeka and the Great Search: #3 Wilder Zoo – Tina Strachan. Illustrated by Max Hamilton.
Harper Collins Australia Imprint: Angus & Robertson ISBN: 9781460764572 ISBN 10: 1460764579 RRP: $16.99 I would be seriously surprised if anyone had missed the charming trilogy now at its conclusion. What a credit it is to this debut author, Tina Strachan, to start off with such a crackerjack set of books! For me, there’s the added bonus…
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Neeka and the Storm: Wilder Zoo #2 – Tina Strachan
Harper Collins Australia July 2025 ISBN: 9781460764565 ISBN 10: 1460764560 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $16.99 I have no doubts whatsoever that many of you will have kids who loved the #1 in this series, Neeka and the Missing Key. Of course, the whole animals aspect is a huge drawcard, but the plot with all its drama, humour and…
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Taronga for the Tinies
Penguin Australia The surge in zoo and animal books is not just for the older readers. Here are some adorable board books for the Smallests in your circle. Taronga: We’re Going to the Zoo: Taronga Conservation Society Australia Cate James March 2025 ISBN: 9781761347542 Imprint: Penguin RRP: $16.99 An outing to the zoo is always exciting with so…
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Ella and the Sleepover Safari – Cassy Polimeni. Hykie Breeze.
UWAP March 2025 ISBN: 9781760803018 RRP: $15.99 How utterly apt that it happens I can be writing this review today on World Frog Day! Lucky it hopped into my mail just in time. So many of you will know the sensational series start of the first Ella book, when we met her family, friends and…
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Neeka and the Missing Key: Wilder Zoo #1 – Tina Strachan
Harper Collins ISBN: 9781460716434 ISBN 10: 1460716434 Imprint: HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson RRP $12.99 Last night (13/03) I had another wonderful evening at Quick Brown Fox bookshop for a Reading Between the Wines event. Tina Strachan was one of the authors, and it was fortuitous that I had just read this first in her series. We all know that…
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Picture Book Month extra!!! Taronga Big Book of Animals – Taronga Conservation Society Australia
Penguin Australia October 2024 ISBN: 9781761347467 Imprint: Penguin RRP: $39.99 Meet the Four Artists Behind Taronga Zoo’s Big Book of Animals In case you missed my recent reviews of Kristin Darrell’s new junior fiction series featuring all the excitement of Taronga Zoo, you should really pick them up now and pair them with this extraordinarily beautiful encyclopedia…
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The One and Only Family – Katherine Applegate
Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9780008702465 ISBN 10: 0008702462 Imprint: HarperCollins GB RRP: $17.99 All good things must come to an end so they say [and of course, as a Buddhist, I do know that everything is impermanent], but I am, along with many others I have no doubt, sad to say goodbye to Ivan and his friends, and…
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Taronga Presents series – Kristin Darrell. Illustrations by Laura Wood.
Penguin Australia September 2024 Brand spanking new this week comes this terrific new series for junior readers who are the animal lovers in your crowd. Having raised mini-Attenborough for half her life and watched her obsession with all creatures great and small (quite literally – at one time she had 34 pets including all the…
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A Good Heart – Lucy Melo & Sandra Severgnini
Red Back Publishing April 2024 ISBN: 9781761400247 RRP: $26.99 Just a few weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of a lunch with some amazing people including award-winning illustrator Sandra Severgnini, who graciously gifted each of us a copy of this adorable and very special book, which was inspired by the real-life bond between elephant siblings,…
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